For those of you who rightfully wish this thread was dead,
these aren't the droids you're looking for -- move along,
move along.

Fletcher wrote in message ...
DrBoom wrote:

[snipped English debate]

See how silly that was? Playing the Grammar Police game is fun, but
only if you want to know how many adverbs can dance on the head
of a pin. Otherwise, it's a red herring.

While I have no cause to offer to kick your ass... I would invite you to go
**** your mother.

Physically small men talking big on Usenet is nothing new, of course.

so what are you mumbling about? This asshole keeps saying that I spent my
time in r.a.p. 'threatening' people.

You have done so in the past, and that sticks in people's minds.

Said I was going to call him out or some ****.

It's not a totally unreasonable expectation on his part given the
image you've carefully cultivated.

I thought he needed to get laid, it might take his mind off being an
asshole for a few minutes. So explain to me how exactly is that
"talking big"?

It's sophmoric chest thumping, and it's "talking big" if you post
something here that you wouldn't say in person. If you, as you
claim, really talk to people like that, then you must be hanging
out with a bunch of pussies, AKA "polite society". Big deal, anyone
can do that -- it's not very risky. You might also get away with it
in rough company if you're a "mascot" of some sort, but that's
only because they think you're cute and don't take it seriously.

Shooting your mouth off to total strangers, which is the equivalent
of what you're doing here, is something you don't get away with
in the real world for very long. Considering your stated background
and the fact that you made it past forty mostly intact, I think you
know this. That you behave otherwise on this newsgroup leads me
to believe that you either forgot those hard lessons or figure it's
worth the low risk to get some notoriety.

[snip]

What I find rather amusing is that everyone connected with this
thread who has found cause to break my balls, are all anonymous.

No, not everyone. Not that it makes much difference.

How the **** could your "name" appear in the subject line of
the thread? You don't use your ****ing name. Sackless ****heel
that you are, you employ a pseudonym. Wanna come clean with
your name there big fella? Didn't think you had the cojones for that.

Your quaint notions of manhood are irrelevant. Either my ideas are
useful, or they aren't. I consistently post with the same nom de net to
help people judge whether they want to pay attention to or ignore what
I write. If I had something to promote, it would be a diferent story
for a variety of reasons.

You may be of the opinion that I'm an asshole, which is fine by me,
I'm sure as **** not here to please you...

That much is obvious.

but at the end of the day at least there is no hiding behind a
'handle'. Think about it.

Self esteem is good if you don't overdo it.

Now, why would I take the time to get into this at all? You cheated
the group, that's why. However you want to view your response
to the dude's for sale posting, the result is that we'll probably never
be able to get his insight into a pretty cool project. No matter
how entertaining you are, it's not worth it if we all get shafted
like that as a result.

You have your own playpen over at ProRec where you can do
what you like, but this newsgroup shouldn't have to suffer the
loss of valuable input from _anyone_ just because you won't be
civil when it's called for.

-DrBoom